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Woman Charged With DWI After Fatal Suffolk Crash: Police

The 30-year-old was accused of driving drunk when her car left the roadway, struck a telephone pole and a man early Sunday, police say.

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Lita Davidson, 30, was driving a 2016 Hyundai Elantra eastbound on Montauk Highway, near E Shore Road, when her car left the roadway, struck a telephone pole and a man at 4 a.m., police said.
Lita Davidson, 30, was driving a 2016 Hyundai Elantra eastbound on Montauk Highway, near E Shore Road, when her car left the roadway, struck a telephone pole and a man at 4 a.m., police said. (Photo credit: Bryan Lopez)

LINDENHURST, NY — A Bay Shore woman was arrested on a DWI charge after a fatal car crash in Lindenhurst early Sunday, according to Suffolk police.

Lita Davidson, 30, was driving a 2016 Hyundai Elantra eastbound on Montauk Highway, near E Shore Road, when her car left the roadway, struck a telephone pole and a man at 4 a.m., police said.

The man, identified as 40-year-old Robert Vitale, who was homeless, was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip where he was pronounced dead, police said. Davidson was not injured.

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Davidson was charged with DWI, police said. She was held overnight at the Fourth Precinct and is scheduled for arraignment at First District Court in Central Islip on Monday.

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